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Show RUSSELL SAGE'S WILL. . T ; An account says that Russell Sage never left one dollar to charity. ' 1 ' ! .' We must not judge too hastily about that. . ' Sage was eighty-four years old when he mtAt his will, and he willed it to hia wife. His wife is a very superior woman. She trained in the same class with the late Frances Willard and the late Mrs. Livermore and. Miss Helen Gould. i. . She is yet in the prime of life, and it is quite possible that Mr. Sage, when he made his will, said to his wife: "My life has been devoted to accumulating money. I should make but a poor hand at distributing distribut-ing what I have accumulated. -Yoa are in close accord ac-cord with the brightest intellectual women in the country, so I will give 'my property to you and you do with it as you please." , We rather suspect that that will be the final development de-velopment of the matter. - |